2007-2008 Migratory Bird
Hunting Season
Information
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Description |
Season Dates |
Limits |
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Canvasback |
November 17-
December 18, 2007 |
Daily limit of six (6) ducks which may
include no more than four (4) mallards (no more than one (1)
of which may be females), one (1) pintail, three (3) mottled
ducks, two (2) scaup, two (2) wood ducks, two (2) redheads,
one (1) black duck and
two (2) canvasback. |
December
26, 2007 -
January 6, 2008
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January 12-27, 2008 |
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Coots |
November 17, -
December. 18, 2007 |
Coot bag limits: Daily bag limit is 15. The possession
limit is twice the daily bag limit.
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December
26, 2007 -
January 6, 2008
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January 12-27, 2008 |
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Duck
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November 17, -
December. 18, 2007 |
Daily limit of six (6) ducks which may
include no more than four (4) mallards (no more than one (1)
of which may be females), one (1) pintail, three (3) mottled
ducks, two (2) scaup, two (2) wood ducks, two (2) redheads,
one (1) black duck andtwo (2) canvasback.
Daily limit of five (5) mergansers, which
may include no more than two (2) hooded mergansers.
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December
26, 2007 -
January 6, 2008
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January 12-27, 2008 |
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Gallinule, Purple |
September 1-November 9, 2007 |
Limit 15 |
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Goose
Snow, Blue and Ross' |
Nov. 8 - Dec. 21, 2007
Dec. 26, 2007 -Feb. 3, 2008 |
Limit 20 |
Goose
White-fronted |
Nov. 17-Dec. 18, 2007
Dec. 26, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008 |
Limit 2 |
Goose - Canada
Statewide |
Dec. 26, 2007 - Feb. 3,
2008
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Limit 2 |
Goose - Canada
Southwest |
September 1-15, 2007
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Limit 5 |
Goose - Canada
Northwest |
September 1-15, 2007 |
Limit 5 |
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Sept. 29 - Oct. 8, 2007
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Limit 2 |
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Shooting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise to
sunset statewide. |
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Goose
Snow, Blue & Ross'
2008 Light Goose
Conservation Order |
Snow,
Blue And Ross’ Goose Conservation Order
February 4 - April 27, 2008
No daily bag limit.
Click here to learn more. |
Shooting hours during the
Snow, Blue and Ross’ Goose Conservation
Order are one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise (local time)
until
one-half (1/2) hour after sunset (local time). |
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Merganser
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November 17 -
December. 18, 2007 |
Daily limit of five (5)
mergansers, which may include no more than two (2) hooded
mergansers |
December 26, 2007 -
January 6, 2008 |
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January 12 -
January 27, 2008 |
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Moorhen, Common |
September 1-November 9, 2007 |
Limit 15 |
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Northern Pintail
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November 17 -
December. 18, 2007 |
Daily limit of six
(6) ducks which may include no more than four (4) mallards
(no more than one (1) of which may be females),
one (1) pintail,
three (3) mottled ducks, two (2) scaup, two (2) wood ducks,
two (2) redheads, one (1) black duck and two (2) canvasback.
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December 26, 2006 -
January 6, 2008 |
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January 12, 2008 |
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Rail, Virginia/Sora |
September 15-November 23, 2007 |
Limit 25 |
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Snipe |
November 1, 2007-
February 15, 2008 |
Limit 8 |
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Teal |
September 15-30, 2007 |
Limit 4 |
Shooting hours for teal during the teal
season
are sunrise to sunset (local time) |
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Woodcock |
November 10-December 24, 2007 |
Limit 3 |
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Youth
Waterfowl Hunt |
Ducks, coots and mergansers may be taken
during the Special Youth Waterfowl Hunt statewide
December 22-23, 2007 |
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On these days, youths 15 years old and
younger may hunt ducks (including pintails and canvasbacks),
geese, coots and mergansers. Youths who have completed a
hunter education course must be accompanied by a mentor who
is 18 or older. Youths who have not completed a hunter
education course must be under the direct supervision of a
mentor who is 21 or older. Mentors may not hunt ducks,
geese, coots or mergansers, but may call waterfowl and hunt
other game in season.
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If you shoot a banded migratory bird, please
call 1-800-327-BAND.
Banded mourning doves
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, along with 25 other state agencies,
is participating in a nationwide mourning dove banding study. The
three-year study will determine mourning dove harvest rates, estimate
annual
Shooting Hours
Shooting Hours are one-half hour
before sunrise until sunset (local time), except:
• Early teal
season shooting hours are from sunrise until sunset (local time).
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Regular duck season shooting hours statewide are one-half hour before
sunrise until sunset (local time).
• Canada goose season shooting hours
are one-half hour before sunrise until sunset.
The following is a
link to an Internet site that has a program designed to calculate sunrise
and sunset by county and specific location within a county. This
calculator is compliments of David Shaw. Sunrise and Sunset Calculator
Sunrise and Sunset
Table
Duck boat operators are subject to the same laws
regarding
registration, running lights, licensing and life
jackets as the
operators of other kinds of boats.
For
further information, call the Boating Safety Office at
1-501-223-6379.
Regulations
No person shall take migratory
gamebirds…
…with trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun,
shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machine gun,
fishhook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying substance;
…with a
shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, unless it is plugged
with a one-piece filler which is incapable of removal without
disassembling the gun;
…by the aid of baiting (placing feed
such as corn, wheat, salt or other feed to constitute a lure or
enticement), on or over any baited area. Hunters should be aware that a
baited area is considered to be baited for 10 days after the removal of
bait, and it is not necessary for the hunter to know the area is baited to
be in violation.
Closed season: No person shall take migratory game
birds during the closed season.
Shooting hours: No person shall
take migratory game birds except during the hours open to shooting as
prescribed.
Daily limit: No person shall take in any one calendar
day more than one daily bag limit.
Field possession limit: No
person shall possess more than one daily limit while in the field or while
returning from the field to his car, hunting camp, home,
etc.
Wanton waste: All migratory game birds killed or
crippled shall be retrieved, if possible, and retained in the custody of
the hunter in the field.
Tagging: No person shall give, put or
leave any migratory game birds at any place or in the custody of another
person unless the birds are tagged by the hunter with the following
information: name and address, the total number of birds of each species
and the date of kill. No person or business shall receive or have in
custody any migratory game birds belonging to another person unless such
birds are properly tagged.
Dressing: No person shall completely
field dress any migratory game bird (except doves and band-tailed pigeons)
and then transport the birds from the field. The head or one
fully-feathered wing must remain attached to all such birds while being
transported from the field to one’s home or to a commercial preservation
facility.
Shot requirements: The kinds of shot legal to possess or
use while waterfowl hunting are steel, tungsten-iron, tungsten-polymer,
tungsten-matrix, tungsten-ironnickel-tin (TINT), tungsten-nickel iron (hevi-shot),
or bismuth-tin or such shot approved as nontoxic by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
Shot size: Legal shot is size T or smaller
(waterfowl) or lead shot size BB or smaller (migratory gamebirds).
Gun Plug Requirements: Shotguns must be incapable
of holding more than three shells in the magazine and chamber
combined.
Complete federal regulations are available by
contacting the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at
501-324-5643.
Special Youth WaterfowI Hunt
December 11 & 12, 2004
On these days, youths 15 years old and younger may hunt ducks,
geese, coots and mergansers. Pintail season is open and canvasback
season is closed. Youths who have completed a hunter education course
must be accompanied by a mentor who is 18 years or older. Youths who
have not completed a hunter education course must be under the direct
supervision of a mentor who is 21 years or older. Mentors may not hunt
ducks, geese, coots or mergansers, but may hunt other game in season.
Bag limits are the same as regular duck season. Youths may hunt
all day long on Wildlife Management Areas. Otherwise, shooting hours are
the same as during duck season. Commission-owned Waterfowl Rest Areas
and the Bob Young and Horsehead Creek WRAs on Dardanelle WMA are open to
youth hunting all day during the Youth Waterfowl Hunt. The waterfowl
rest area on Ed Gordon/Point Remove WMA is closed.
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Waterfowl Hunting on Wildlife Management Areas |
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Shooting hours end at
noon: Except where noted, waterfowl shooting hours end at noon on
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission-owned Wildlife Management and
Demonstration Areas, except all day hunting is allowed the last three
days of the last duck season.
Take up decoys: Except where noted, waterfowl decoy spreads may
not be left out overnight on wildlife management areas or wildlife
demonstration areas.
Cutting tools restricted: It is not legal to use or possess chainsaws,
handsaws, hatchets, axes, other such cutting devices or chemical
defoliants on Commission-owned WMAs. Exceptions to this rule include:
hunting knives, pocketknives and pocket saws; campers in designated
camping areas; and trappers using hatchets during trapping season.
Permanent duck blinds not allowed: Except where noted, it is not legal
to build, erect, or hunt from a permanent duck blind (any structure
fabricated from metal, lumber, wire, nylon or other building
materials) which is not removed or torn down each day at the end of
the hunt or at the end of shooting hours on a wildlife management
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ATTENTION BIRD HUNTERS!
If you hunt geese, dove, ducks,
coots, rail, gallinules, snipe or woodcocks,
you must carry proof
of HIP
registration this hunting season.
Migratory bird hunters in Arkansas, 16 years or older,
are required to
carry proof of Arkansas Harvest Information Program (HIP) registration
when hunting ducks, geese, doves, coots, woodcocks, snipe, rails,
gallinules or moorhens. Available at no charge, HIP registration can be
obtained by completing a short survey found at license dealers or any Game
and Fish Commission office or by logging on to http://www.agfc.com/ and clicking on
License Information.
For more information about the HIP program, click
here.
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513-0058
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